Apparently, Valie Export's <Tap and Touch
Cinema> is sur-facing
as the obvious analogue pop-art-cultural-reference to Max &
Marguerite Charmantes <Ludic Pong Dress>. Whilst the
games at
dis_play vary to some extend, the symbiotic dedication and obsession
for the playground's finesse remain the same. Both
experience-based-designs build on the following contention. That a
timely mediatisation of a current societies desires (transgressing
sexual and ludic boundaries) build on a convincing frontwall, will do
the job of seducing the witnessing spectators. Both, the privileged
active players and the countless inter_passive observers, will be
sucked into the game. The fundamental difference homes in entirely
awaited: in its contemporary variety, the game will becoming a play
with nothing but the products of one's associative power. While the
'touch and feel' quality of Export's predecessor has been paved away by
the 'iconographic ardour'of Charmantes LE.D.IS_PLAY. text by Jo Maier, Zurich.